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Thank you for correcting me on Nagel's name. I'm embarrassed that I misspelled it, cuz his book is right in front of me.

> Please give me a definition of "meaning" that can be applied to a human brain and not to a computer. You associate a meaning to the symbol "dog". You think of an animal that bark…

No, I'm not begging the question. In another response, I readily admit that if materialism is true, then AI is a foregone conclusion. Please prove that mere electromagnetism can ca…

I think that "qualia" is the wrong question. Please see my other comments on this story.

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You apparently don't understand how computers work. There is no "meaning" associated with any variable or its value, and there cannot be.

I am not agreeing with your argument, but let me play devil's advocate. If somebody wanted to produce a real AI, every bit as intelligent as a human, he probably wouldn't go wrong …

> I think you ought to try Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Brakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Thanks. I'll buy it and read it.

Au contraire. Since electromagnetism cannot cause intentions, or goals, and since the human obviously has both intentions and goals (teleology), it is clear that the human brain do…

If you accept materialism as true, then by the Church-Turing hypothesis it is a necessary and foregone conclusion that computers will achieve full human intelligence, and even more…

Read, and then critique, Nagle's recent book: http://www.Amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-... Please come back and post your response here, or start a new Hacker-Ne…

> But there are some things which are philosophical, yet not scientific I think you are wrong here as well. There is an entire branch of philosophy dedicated to the study of what w…

It is obviously not a waste when we use computers to do syntax. Chess-playing computers can now beat the best international grandmasters; this is an example of computers doing synt…

The Ph.D. degree is all about philosophy, no matter what field it is in. There is nothing which is scientific (dealing with knowledge in general, according to the Latin roots of th…

Don't just vote me down. Give reasons. Critique my arguments. Critique Searle and Nagle, whom I cite. (You have to have read their corpus first.) Voting my comment down without giv…

Idiocy: My thermostat has three possible beliefs: 1) It is too warm in here. 2) It is too cold in here. 3) It is just about right. Minsky is wrong about AI in the same way that McC…

The Asus model 1015E does not let you disable Restricted Boot, nor does it allow you to re-enable Legacy Boot. I don't have direct proof or experience, but I understand that many o…

I don't blog.

Asus does not support disabling Restricted Boot for their model 1015E.

OpenBSD doesn't support UEFI, and will never boot from it. UEFI (better called Restricted Boot) takes away the user's freedom. I want to own my hardware. I don't want the manufactu…

Microsoft deserves the blame. They require UEFI (more accurately called Restricted Boot) for Windows 8.

It used to be the case that Linux just ran on everything, until Microsoft started throwing their monopoly weight around again , and insisting upon UEFI (better called "Restricted B…

OpenBSD does not support UEFI, and probably never will. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/196288 Please note that OpenBSD has no problem handling large disks, greate…

something unexpected will happen long before 202 million years from now.